The Journal of Community Informatics invites submission of original, unpublished articles in English for its forthcoming special edition that will focus on Gender and Community Informatics.
The Journal is a focal point for the communication of research of interest to a global network of academics, Community Informatics practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers.
Community Informatics is a technology strategy or discipline which links economic and social development efforts at the community level with emerging opportunities in such areas as electronic commerce, community and civic networks and telecentres, electronic democracy and online-participation, self-help and virtual health communities, advocacy and cultural enhancement.
Current scholarship on gender and feminism faces an interesting challenge in the need to understand and interpret the complexities of social change through the prism of the ‘information society’.
Thematic Focus
This special issue will focus on gender within community contexts – the intersection between new technologies and issues of identity, social hierarchies, citizenship, politics of knowledge, and institutional change.
Authors may submit both full articles for peer-review, as well as short pieces on specific experiences and/or policy and regulatory issues, to be reviewed by guest editor Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change).
Deadline for abstracts: July 1, 2008
Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2008
Click here for information about submission requirements, including author guidelines.
For additional information, clarifications, comments or suggestions, and to send abstracts of papers for consideration, please contact:
Weiting Xu
Research Associate, IT for Change
weiting@tforchange.net Tel: +91 80 2665 4134, 2653 6890
Fax: +91 80 4146 1055
Source: IT for Change
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